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Practice makes plasticity

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Landmark papers in 2005 and 2009 provided the first evidence of links between development, training, and white-matter plasticity in humans, contributing to a shift in our understanding of brain wiring that has inspired fundamental research into the role of genes, the environment, and the mechanisms underlying training-related plasticity.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Christopher J. Steele

  2. Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

    Christopher J. Steele

  3. Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Robert J. Zatorre

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Steele, C.J., Zatorre, R.J. Practice makes plasticity. Nat Neurosci 21, 1645–1646 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-018-0280-4

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